moving to the Asheville/Black Mountain area
I am brand new here. I just stumbled on this and am enjoying all the opinions and information. My wife and I met in North Carolina 26 years ago. After three years in Cali and 21 years in northern New York we are planning to move back . We have made a couple of extended trips to the area in the last year. We were originally drawn by the mountains, but were blown away by the thriving art scene.
We are both working artists with established reputations and decent gallery representation. It is unusual to find an art community that active and strong in a city of the size of Asheville. We are selling a small gallery and frame shop to focus more energy on our art careers. We love the Adirondacks but frankly the taxes here in New York are out of control and the winters get tougher as we get older.
Seems western NC has it all. Four seasons, (we didn't get that in Cali) and the mountains of NNY with lower taxes and a lot less snow fall, (over 200" each winter where we are now).
I'd love to hear from others who have made the move, especially any artists that might be out there.
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